UE5 Neurology/Neurosurgery Fellow Research Symposium

2026

Event: UE5 Neurology/NeurosurgeryFellow Research Symposium – Thursday, April 30, 2026

Venue: Connor Auditorium, 12-2 p.m.

Keynote speaker
Wayne Yokoyama, MD

Wayne Yokoyama, MD
Sam J. Levin & Audrey Loew Levin Professor
Director, WashU MSTP

Bishop Lectureship: “Challenging Current Paradigms to Explain Clinical Autoimmunity – The HLA-B27 Story”

2025
Michael Taylor, MD, PhD

Michael Taylor, MD, PhD
Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Chair of Pediatric Neuro-Oncology
Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Center
Bishop Lectureship: “Recent Homo sapiens Cerebellar Hypertrophy as a Proximal Cause for Medulloblastoma: How understanding the development of hindbrain will allow us to prevent rather than cure medulloblastoma”

2024
Charlotte Sumner, MD

Charlotte Sumner, MD
Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Bishop Lectureship: “Blood neural barriers and motor neuron degeneration”

2023

Event: R25 Neurology Fellow Research Symposium – Friday, May 5, 2023

Venue: Moore Auditorium, 7:45-11 a.m.

Keynote speaker
Christopher A. Walsh, MD, PhD
Christopher A. Walsh, MD, PhD

Christopher A. Walsh, MD, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Bishop Lectureship: Assist in Deciding Optimal Therapeutic Interventions For Patients with Neurological Disorders

Presentations

MRI Correlates of Concussion and Inattention in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study

Benjamin Kay, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology

Intersection of the Blood Brain Barrier (BBB), Neurology, and Neuro-Oncology

Omar H. Butt
Instructor in Medicine
Siteman Cancer Center

Defining the Mechanisms Underlying Sexually Dimorphic Vision Loss in Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) Optic Glioma

Yunshuo “Caroline” Tang, MD, PhD
Clinical Fellow Associate
Department of Neurology

Dopaminergic Regulation of Pain Processing in the Amygdala

Robert (BJ) Heuermann, MD, PhD
Movement Disorders Fellow
Departments of Anesthesiology & Neurology

Effect of astrocyte and microglial ApoE on traumatic brain injury (TBI)-mediated neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration

Enmanuel J. Perez, MD, PhD
Instructor in Neurology
Department of Neurology